A large-scale cyberattack on X, formerly Twitter, has disrupted access to users around the globe on Monday, but more than 24 hours later Elon Musk claimed the platform was under direct attack.
According to the Downdetector tracking site, reports of problems with X started early Monday as users in Asia, Europe and North America reported being unable to access the platform.
In a post on the platform that intermittently worked as the day dragged on, Musk said: “There was (still is) a huge hack attack on X.”
He also cited a hack — again, without proof — that shut down the site last year just before an interview with Donald Trump was set to air on it.
Musk’s post Monday — which has since been deleted — included an X post from a DogeDesigner account, which some on Reddit suggested could be a “sockpuppet account” for none other than Musk, aka Musk, himself.
The post pointed to protests outside the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Trump gave to Musk, as well as vandalization of Tesla shops, and it said a cyberattack could indicate a fresh wave of anger directed at Musk. He heads Tesla, which is an electric car startup.
A post shared by user @Jammies on the exchange made the following observation: “It would cost a lot of (money) to do this level (of an attack).
Who’s going to pay for this?
Such an attack, he also claimed, would require massive amounts of resources and said it was either a nation-state or a bigpolitically group.
We can’t see inside X operations, Cummings said, so it’s hard to assess what’s going on, but the length of the trouble indicates “potentially an attack,” to the cybersecurity experts.
“It’s cyberwar hitting full blast,” said Chad Cragle with cyber defense platform Deepwatch.
Given that Musk is front and centre stage at the moment (with political tensions possibly at an all time high too), these attacks show all the signs of nation-state behaviour.
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